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The Frida Kahlo Corporation Has Sued Amazon Kahlo Kitsch Sellers
Apparently, third-party sellers have sold everything "including prints, cosmetics, beverages, smoking accessories, toys, accessories, cooking ware, cameras, and face masks. These objects reportedly depicted...
Da’Vine Joy Randolph On Getting Her Day At The Oscars
"Randolph doesn’t really speak Awards Season — not like the shiny glittery things who seem to have it down. Ask her how she fee-eels and the 37-year-old...
Did Online Trolls From Saudi Arabia Manipulate Opinions About Amber Heard?
Pretty much, yes - and that may have implications for elections in the U.S. and other democracies. - CBC
Petra Mathers, Author And Illustrator Of Many Children’s Books, Has Died At 78
"Mathers’s stories — whose subjects included a soulful museum guard (an alligator) who falls in love with the subject in a painting (another alligator)...
The Woman Who Brought Libraries Online
The internet was hard to use in 1992 - there was no web browser, for instance - so "the service was mediated by local...
Juliette Binoche On Turning Spielberg Down Multiple Times, And That Oscar
"My mind wasn’t working when I went up to receive my Oscar . You’re in a space of awe, in this surprising state of not...
Theatre For A Complex, Multivocal Street In The Nation’s Capital City
“To be able to participate in this project is to not only get to learn more about history, but also to have an outlet...
New York Times Culture Writers Are Still Mad At These Oscar Snubs
Many, many readers are also angry. A few things marinate on and on: Brokeback Mountain’s lack of wins, Shakespeare in Love’s wins, and some...
While We’re Adding Oscar Categories, How About Choreography?
"The Oscars omission carries a special sting: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Academy Awards, used to celebrate choreography." - The...
The EU Has Fined Apple Two Billion Dollars For The Way It Treats Music...
“The commission said it found that Apple violated European competition rules by preventing app developers from informing users about 'alternative and cheaper’ music services."...
If Morality Has A Sound, Two Top Oscar Contenders Try To Help Us Hear...
"Viscerally depicting the psychic gulf between methods of massacre and their creators is not simple in a medium like film. Cinema tends to enforce...
The Curious Case Of The Atlantic’s Japanese Court Settlement
The information furnishes "a useful lesson in how U.S. media companies fare when they cannot fall back on the ironclad legal protections they enjoy...
New York Times Crossword Editor And NPR Sunday Puzzle Host Will Shortz Is Recovering...
Shortz, who has been crossword editor at The New York Times for three decades, "shared the health update in a recorded message that aired on...
A Commitment To Painting Every Day After Tragedy Turns To Global Success
Margo McDaid: “At first, it felt like a coping mechanism; a ritual to hold on to. … I wanted to see how my work...
Is It Possible To Make A ‘Fair’ Crossword Puzzle?
Should crosswords lead solvers to new words and ideas, or should they be for those who’ve been doing crosswords for a while and “don’t...
The Fine Art Of Abandoned Skyscrapers
“‘It’s pretty unheard of to paint a skyscraper, so it was like, ‘Oh man let’s go take advantage of this and do it while...
Off-Broadway Will Lose Its Theatres Without Support
“If Broadway is sustained by tourists, to use a sweeping generalisation, Off-Broadway is where the locals can be found, given the primarily limited run...
Israel Asks Eurovision Candidate To Change Song Lyrics
"The contest ... can disqualify contestants deemed to have breached its rules on political neutrality,” and the song “October Rain” currently contains lyrics that...
Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever
Adding “free direct thought” meant her narrator had distance, but brought the reader into the characters’ heads. - Open Culture
AI-Generated Nudes At A Middle School Raise Legal Questions
The thing is, "Federal law includes computer-generated images of identifiable people in the prohibition on child pornography. Although the prohibition seems clear, legal experts caution...
New Yorkers Want A Flaco The Owl Statue
"The proposed monument’s design would involve a pedestal with a protruding branch where Flaco’s sculpture would perch for eternity." - Hyperallergic
At A Rally, Hollywood Craft Unions Warn Of More Strikes Looming
The IATSE president "addressed one of the key issues in the negotiations — artificial intelligence — saying it should not be used to replace...
Actor Who Uses Wheelchair Sues Shakespeare’s Globe For Employment Discrimination
"Athena Stevens is suing Shakespeare’s Globe for harassment, discrimination and victimisation, claiming she encountered ‘unfavourable' treatment because of her disability while working there” -...
Oscars Voting Is Over, But What Was The Best – And Worst – Way...
A week ago, it was crunch time for actors, musicians, directors, writers, and PR people on the path to an Academy Award. But importantly,...
Ignore The Nobel Committee, And Ask Yourself If Lyrics Can Ever Truly Be Literature
"While they can certainly be literary, a lyric is just one channel for conveying meaning in a song. The vocal delivery, melody, rhythm, arrangement and...
